The start of my first year with Swift.

Great idea!! I happened to be at Home Depot and found a carpet remnant that was about that size. Makes a nice place to put down your feet. Of course Home Depot wanted a lot more money for it.

 

I'm now sitting near Grand Juncion, CO at a truck stop.

My day started out ok until I pulled in to the fuel/DEF aisle at the SLC Terminal. Getting fuel was no problem, but getting DEF was something else. I had asked several people who work there what the procedure was for getting DEF. Everyone told me to go to the service desk and ask for the key. I went to the service desk where three people were standing around and there was one on the phone. They stood around BSing and finally scattered. I was still standing there. Finally a guy came and had to move his toolbox past me and asked what I needed. I told him I wanted to get some DEF and needed the key. He said he would send someone right out....Twenty minutes passed and no one came out. I went back in, got some washer fluid and went back to the service desk. One person still on the phone and no one else around. I go back to my truck. Another driver pulled in behind me and then asked me if I was calling the office. I told him what I had been told and he just laughed and said they always say they will send someone right out and they never do. After 30 minutes I call the terminal and get transferred to the shop where no one picks up. Finally, after almost 40 minutes a guy comes out. He acts like I had asked if I could date his mother.

The rest of the day was ok. I made my delivery to the plumbing outfit. It was a tough back to hit the dock but I did it without causing injury or death. I found out that pay for a full unload is $80, unloading with a pallet jack is $40, and a driver assist is $30. I don't know what they will classify mine as. I put half the load on the dock and the other half I slid to the back of the truck. I guess I'll wait and see.

I was able to pick up my next load early. I ended up getting out of there about an hour early then my pickup time. I'm glad I did because if I had waited for a live load I might still be there. Everything went smooth for the rest of the day and her I sit.

That's all folks.

 

I did have a strange thing happen today. While waiting to be loaded, another Swift driver came up and gave me two boxes of Tony's bread sticks. He said he got them off a crashed reefer that was going to scrap the entire load. The dispatch I had said I had to weigh the load and I asked him if his was the same. He said yes and he said it was a way to make some money. I asked how that was. He said whenever he has to weigh the gets a company advance for $25 and the scale only costs him $10. I just let it go. Even with a Company advance, don't they withhold that out of your pay until you turn in the receipts? I can't figure out how he's making money at this? Anyone???